2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1, game 9.
Lance Johnson — a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
Mark Eckard — an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
Kermin Fleming — a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kermin | $2,600 | $5,600 | $15,200 |
$1,599
3rd place: $5,000 |
$15,200
18 R, 1 W |
| Mark | $2,000 | $4,600 | $12,800 |
$25,600
Winner: $25,600 + an advance to UToC Round 2 |
$12,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Lance | $1,600 | $4,400 | $14,400 |
$10,400
2nd place: $5,000 |
$14,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| LITERARY TITLE PAIRS | NEW YORK ON FILM | AR"T" | IT'S A JOB | EASY FOR YOU TO SAY | WHY NOT? |
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$200
[1]
1913:"...and Lovers"
Sons
Kermin
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$200
[18]
Robert De Niro played a Vietnam vet turned N.Y. cabbie in this 1976 film--"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?"
Taxi Driver
Lance
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$200
[4]
Baked clay found in busts & reliefs
terra cotta
Lance
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$200
[5]
Dark forearms from wearing a T-shirt are often called this rural occupation's "tan"
farmer
Mark
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$200
[22]
Spoken by 1.5 million, Qashqai is a secondary language of this country where Farsi is No. 1
Iran
Kermin
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$200
[13]
Though outer space is a giant one of these, it doesn't Hoover us up because there's no air pressure to provide suction
a vacuum
Mark
|
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$400
[2]
1894:"...and the Man"
Arms
Kermin
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$400
[27]
Meg Ryan visited Katz's Deli to film one of the most famous scenes of recent years, in this 1989 movie
When Harry Met Sally...
Kermin
Mark
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$400
[7]
He loved the night life, as seen here
Toulouse-Lautrec
Kermin
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$400
[9]
To face a lesser criminal charge, do this to "a plea"
cop
Lance
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$400
[23]
Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare hereditary skin condition in which the skin & eyes are damaged by these rays
ultraviolet rays
Lance
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$400
[17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds down a sheep on a farm.) Tiny scales on sheep's wool, unlike processed wool, are aligned in the same direction--that's why this doesn't happen when it rains
shrinkage
Mark
|
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$600
[3]
1830:"...and the Black"
The Red
Mark
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$600
[28]
Henry Winkler & Sly Stallone played leather-clad greasers of the '50s in this 1974 flick
The Lords of Flatbush
Lance
|
$800
[15]
This Venetian painted the work seenherearound 1530
Titian
Kermin
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$600
[10]
To falsify, like evidence, or deface, like a baseball
doctor
Kermin
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$600
[24]
Czestochowa is found in the southern part of this country, just north of Katowice
Poland
Mark
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$600
[19]
Observant Jews don't eat cheeseburgers because Exodus says, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in" this
(his mother's) milk
Kermin
|
|
$800
[6]
Around 1375:"...and the Green Knight"
Sir Gawain
Mark
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$800
[29]
All of Manhattan has become a maximum-security prison in this futuristic Kurt Russell thriller
Escape from New York
Lance
|
DD
$1,000
[14]
Jacopo Robusti was the real name of the painter with this nickname, derived from his father's occupation: dyer
Tintoretto
Mark
|
$800
[11]
To arrange or contrive an outcome
engineer
Mark
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$800
[25]
From 1397 to 1417, Huitzilihuitl was the emperor of this Native American people
the Aztec
Kermin
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$800
[20]
As it's stamped on the weak part of the grain, batters try not to hit the ball off this
the trademark
Lance
|
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$1,000
[8]
1904:"...and Kings"
Cabbages
Kermin
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$1,000
[30]
3 sailors on shore leave see the sights of New York in this musical, one of the first shot on location
On the Town
Mark
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$1,000
[16]
Critics called the work of this British painter "a glaring extravagant daub" & "colouring run mad"
Turner
Mark
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$1,000
[12]
To attend to others' needs, religious or not
minister
Lance
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$1,000
[26]
From 1980 to 1987, Zhao Ziyang was premier & from 1987 to 1989 General Secretary of this party
the Chinese Communist Party
Lance
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$1,000
[21]
In holding back at this city at the E. end of the Strait of Dover, Hitler may have thought he'd force peace on England
Dunkirk
Kermin
Lance
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| MAMMALS | THE BORN IDENTITY | THIS OLD HOUSE | BEFORE & AFTER | "C.S.", I | MIAMI |
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$400
[1]
Cornell University has a lab set up for these animals that only seem to pop up in the news on February 2
groundhogs
Kermin
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$400
[20]
Played Rizzo when she was in her 30s:Susan Stockard
Stockard Channing
Mark
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$400
[14]
(I'm Kevin O'Connor, host of This Old House.) I got the host gig after writing "Ask This Old House" looking for help removing this pasted-on stuff
wallpaper
Lance
|
$400
[24]
Louisiana's governor from 1928 to 1932 who was a one-legged pirate in "Treasure Island"
Huey Long John Silver
Kermin
Mark
|
$400
[5]
"If anyone wants me, tell them I'm being embalmed", said this Hall of Fame Yankee manager
Casey Stengel
Mark
|
$400
[11]
To get to Miami's port, you can take this boulevard with the same name as the city's bay
Biscayne
Mark
|
|
$800
[2]
At the Yerkes Primate Research Center, one of these animals named Lana learned 120 words of "Yerkish"
a chimpanzee
Lance
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$800
[22]
He was always the debonair man-about-town:Archibald Leach
Cary Grant
Mark
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$800
[17]
This section of sheet metal guides water away so it won't get back under the roof shingles
the metal flashing
|
$800
[25]
Grammy-winning saxophonist who went from Watergate conspirator to radio talk show host
Kenny G. Gordon Liddy
Mark
|
$800
[6]
Before becoming TV's "Science Guy", Bill Nye studied astronomy with him at Cornell
Carl Sagan
Lance
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$800
[12]
The 3 Kings Parade is a tradition of this community; it's banned on their home island
the Cuban community
Lance
|
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1991 Princeton University Press published a 518-page text on this "naked" underground mammal
the naked mole rat
Mark
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$1,200
[23]
A famous dance partner:Virginia McMath
Ginger Rogers
Kermin
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$1,200
[18]
(I'm master carpenter Norm Abram.) The balloon type is one version of this structural skeleton that makes a house sound like a work of art
a frame
Mark
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$1,200
[26]
Seafood salad of a Dungeness crustacean & chili sauce that's nicknamed "Satchmo"
Crab Louis Armstrong
Kermin
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$1,200
[7]
As a congressman he sponsored 1994's Brady Bill on handguns; now, he's New York's senior senator
Chuck Schumer
Mark
|
$1,200
[13]
Carl Hiaasen joined this publication in 1976 & has written a column for it since 1985
The Miami Herald
Kermin
|
|
DD
$1,800
[4]
Certain moths make sonar-jamming sounds to confuse these predators
bats
Mark
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$1,600
[28]
This "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel" was Maurice Micklewhite
Michael Caine
Mark
Lance
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$1,600
[19]
Unless you're an NBA player, 8 inches is the comfortable maximum for this vertical part of a step
the rise (or the riser)
Kermin
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$1,600
[27]
Director of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" whose signature song is "God Bless The USA"
Ang Lee Greenwood
Mark
Lance
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$1,600
[8]
This cartoonist was nicknamed "Sparky", after Sparkplug the Horse in "Barney Google"
Charles Schulz
Kermin
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$1,600
[15]
America's oldest of these jai alai venues is on 37th avenue
a fronton
Mark
|
|
$2,000
[9]
The Bornean males of these have rounder faces & darker red fur than the Sumatrans
orangutans
Lance
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$2,000
[29]
Wasn't born "Dressed to Kill":Angeline Brown
Angie Dickinson
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$2,000
[21]
(Hi, I'm Roger Cook, landscape contractor.) It's an Italian word for an arbor with trelliswork to support climbing plants
pergola
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$2,000
[30]
French-named pit viper that rode to the top of the pro cycling circuit after beating cancer
Fer-de-Lance Armstrong
Mark
|
DD
$2,000
[10]
When the Spanish-American War broke out, this poet enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry
Carl Sandburg
Lance
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$2,000
[16]
Great shopping can be found in Coconut Grove or in this area with the same initials to the west
Coral Gables
Kermin
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It's the more commonly used term for the practice of Chinese geomancy
feng shui